blowfly :(
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 17 January 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
aw, man. i heard he was ill but didn't know how badly. sad to hear.
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 January 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
Great r'n'b songwriter as well as proto-rapper
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/clarence-reid-r-b-singer-known-as-blowfly-dead-at-76-20160117
As one of the main songwriters for Miami label TK Records, Reid penned a string of songs in the Sixties and Seventies for numerous soul and funk artists, including Gwen McCrae's "Rocking Chair" and Betty Wright's "Clean Up Woman." He also wrote tracks for KC & The Sunshine Band, Sam & Dave and Bobby Byrd before giving birth to Blowfly, his outlet for performing comedic, explicit songs that over the years traversed the genres of soul, R&B and hip-hop; Blowfly is considered one of the earliest rappers. "He laid the foundation for hip-hop with 'Shake Your Ass' and 'Rap Dirty'
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 January 2016 04:13 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35342699
Dale Griffin, drummer for Mott The Hoople and arguably best known as producer of a great many Peel Sessions.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Monday, 18 January 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
Wow, didn't realize he was the same guy as the Beeb producer.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 January 2016 18:49 (eight years ago) link
RIP Buffin.
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Monday, 18 January 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link
when i saw whiney last night we talked about how gen xers and earlier are gonna have near meaningful daily celebrity deaths now because we're in an era now of people aging out who made their bones in the first generation of 70's / 80's media saturation. I don't THINK this is just a lot of us getting old?
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link
i'm just glad Springsteen is gonna outlive me at this point, cuz i would not be able to take the 6 weeks of gnashing after that one.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 January 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
Springsteen is going to outlive us all.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 January 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
Glenn Frey.
― Alba, Monday, 18 January 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link
xpBruce and Keef will create the last "Rockin' Out In Heaven" poster.
― nickn, Monday, 18 January 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link
The H is No Mo.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 January 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
Man, though - a whole lot of aging boomer musicians in the bullseye. :(
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 January 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
next step
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-o7_VVAoU
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 January 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
obit marked frey
― rip c or d (wins), Monday, 18 January 2016 22:38 (eight years ago) link
Andy 'Dog' Johnson, brother of The The's Matt Johnson and artist on a number of his album sleeves (my source is Paul Gravett, who published his work in Escape magazine)
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
Sucks when you don't realise that "your hero" died five years ago
https://twitter.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmusic%2F2010%2Fapr%2F08%2Fmalcolm-mclaren-dies-sex-pistols
― Alba, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Jeez, I just got word that the guy who got the local branch of the Quiz company I'm with going (and who'd since left for other ventures, but remained our mentor and guru) passed from a massive heart attack last night.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link
Else Marie Pade
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
Saw a report (in Italian) that film director Etore Scola has passed.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link
Kevin Junior of The Chamber Strings, Epic Soundtracks, Nikki Sudden, etc.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/6844129/kevin-junior-chamber-strings-dies
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link
http://www.euronews.com/2016/01/19/italian-film-director-ettore-scola-dies-aged-84/
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 23:46 (eight years ago) link
David Hartwell, sci-fi/fantasy editor.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 07:23 (eight years ago) link
Andy Dog, Matt Johnson's brother and the artist for all of The The's art/album covers over the years has passed away. He actually sent me a nice message once after I'd written about the art for the "Sweet Bird of Truth" sleeve. R.I.P. to him.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link
Didn't realized Johnson had two brothers. (Also didn't realize that apparently Matt Johnson has a cameo in Star Wars.)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
Sandra Dee, who I didn't know was still around.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 January 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link
...because she died 11 years ago...fuckin' internet.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 January 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
Ted Marchibroda, legendary NFL coach who was mentioned once before on ILX in '06
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 January 2016 06:10 (eight years ago) link
Rainbow / Dio / er, Wild Horses bassist Jimmy Bain:
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-rainbowdio-bassist-jimmy-bain-dead-at-68/
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Sunday, 24 January 2016 10:44 (eight years ago) link
Born in Newtonmore!
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 January 2016 12:04 (eight years ago) link
when did 68/69 become such a dicey age for rockers??
― Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Sunday, 24 January 2016 12:08 (eight years ago) link
It's an improvement on 27, you must admit that, RIP Jimmy btw.
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 January 2016 12:19 (eight years ago) link
rip Jimmy :/
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 January 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
Cecil Parkinson
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
He leaves a wife and a 30 year old injunction...
― Mark G, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
I actually didn't know about that. Holy fucking shit:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1380529/The-only-promise-Cecil-Parkinson-ever-kept-never-to-see-his-daughter.html
SHE was, until six days ago, the young woman who did not exist. Excised from school photographs, barred from class theatrical productions and left off the list of scholastic achievements displayed on her college noticeboard, Flora Keays has been forced, by law, to remain invisible. Until now.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
Yep.
― Mark G, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
I get the impression Sara Keys agreed to the injunction initially for "not being bothered by press, allowed to live their life in privacy" reasons, until she discovered what it actually meant, at which point it was too late..
― Mark G, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
"A particularly nice man", according to William Hague.
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Monday, 25 January 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
Didn't know that about Cecil Parkinson, what an abominable fucking scumbag.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Monday, 25 January 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
nor did i, that's fucking heavy reading.
― mark e, Monday, 25 January 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/business/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link
Concepcion Picciotto: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/concepcion-picciotto-who-held-vigil-outside-the-white-house-for-decades-dies/2016/01/25/e0f829e2-c3b0-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
Colin Vearncombe from Black
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/26/colin-vearncombe-dies-the-voice-of-black-aged-53
― soref, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:56 (eight years ago) link
abe vigoda
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
No way. He has defeated death for so long
― Look at that Pavement POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgy5vRJDPUA
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:22 (eight years ago) link
Would love to have seen him in Marat/Sade.
― Look at that Pavement POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
RIP Fish. He's one I've been consistently surprised to discover was still kicking.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
update needed, i guess
http://www.abevigoda.com
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link